Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie YearsThis definitive, single-volume edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography delivers “a Lincoln whom no other man . . . could have given us” (New York Herald Tribune Book Review). Celebrated for his vivid depictions of the nineteenth-century American Midwest, Carl Sandburg brings unique insight to the life of Abraham Lincoln in this distinguished biography. He captures both the man who grew up on the Indiana prairie and the president who held the country together through the turbulence and tragedy of the Civil War. Based on a lifetime of research, Sandburg’s biographywas originally published as a monumental, six-volume study. The author later distilled the work down to this single-volume edition that is considered by many to be his greatest work of nonfiction. |
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... weeks of that winter Tom Lincoln, with help from neighbors and young Abe, now nearly eight, erected a cabin 18 by 20 feet, with a loft. Abe later wrote that he “though very young, was large of his age, and had an axe put into his hands ...
... weeks before they had buried Tom and Betsy Sparrow . So Nancy Hanks Lincoln died , 34 years old , a pioneer sacrifice , with memories of monotonous , endless everyday chores , of mystic Bible verses read over and over for their promises ...
... week in and week out the droolings of a disordered brain - time had done it without warning . On both man and the animals , time and death had their way . In a single week , the milk sick had taken four milk cows and 11 calves of Dennis ...
... weeks that snow cover held the ground . Spring thaws came and sheets of water spread in wide miles on the prairies . As the roads became passable , the Lincoln family and kin moved southeast a hundred miles to Coles County . Abraham had ...